Well, not exactly. I use to blog when I was in middle school. Back in the years 2005 to 2010, there was a thing called Yahoo 360 that was quite popular in Vietnam, which is where I grew up. You could put anything that is valid html into it and make it your own. To be fair, nowadays you can also spin up a blog website quite easily with a service like Wordpress, and there are countless beautifully crafted templates (like this one of mine, which is an Astro theme called AstroPaper), but it was an entirely different experience with making your page flash with a bunch of colors, embedding music and videos, random fun gifs, even Flash games. All that with the web technology of the 2000s. But we’re not talking about blogging today.
Earlier I had dinner with a couple of good Viet friends, and we talked about how music “back in the days” was somehow always better. I guess the act of listening to music itself is not so much of what makes the music “good”, but, at least for a large number of people, it’s rather about who you are when you listen to certain kind of music. My bet is that if you are to express this thought, if you have the same one, it would be that the music everyone listens to when growing up always hits different than that of later stages in life. My totally uneducated hypothesis says: the smaller we are as children, the more from our surroundings we absorb unconciously without knowing, and hence the music we listen to back then just got carved into our head a bit more solid. It’s similar to how a child absord whatever language people around it speak without any trouble. Another factor would also be what you are doing when you listen to music. Not a specific action in the day, like running or eating, although that could also have some contribution, but I’m rather thinking about the little phases in your life. It’s quite apparent that you don’t change yourself everyday, but rather over three months, six months or over a year, depending on your age and your circumstances. So let’s say if you were a 15 year old, and you being in highschool acting like all highschoolers do and having thoughts all highschoolers have, would have a certain identity to yourself, which is a product of everything around you, including the kind of music you listen to. Maybe that’s also why when talking with people around your age about stories of the past, you would be more likely to be understood than talking to others. Thinking about it again, I realized it’s rather a well-known fact already and I’m just going in circle here. But who cares?
A couple of days ago I decided to get this blog website online, just because I haven’t done anything outside of my safebox for quite a long time now, and I know that the more I keep myself stagnant, the harder for me to get something new going. And I don’t want to live the same year for the next 50 years and call it a life. Well, so here it is: my first attempt at dumping my thoughts into words. I’ll keep this one rather simple. I mean, it’s not like I can write better than this or anything, it’s just that I’ve had this mindset of trying to make things a bit too perfect from the get go, and that hinders the progress of many things that I do in life. Actively trying to change that now. So yeah, it has not been much of a piece of writing, but if you are reading this, I hope some your neurons have been excited. Have a nice day and until next time, enjoy Diễn viên tồi by Đen ft. Thành Bùi & Cadillac.